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Archive of a former blog focusing on a "critical analysis of scholary open-access publishing," including a list of predatory publishers. Considered the gold standard by many scholars concerned about predatory publishers, it was the main source of predatory publishers for several years. Others critiqued its inclusion criteria and a bias against journals outside of the highly developed world (U.S., EU, Canada, Australia, Japan). It was suddenly taken offline in January 2017.

Open Access Articles

Authors (or their supporting institution/sponsoring agency) pay a fee to have their article available without a fee on an otherwise subscription-only site.

Most commercial publishers have this option in some/most of their journals. For example, Elsevier allows this option in 1500 of its 3000 journals, while Wiley and SAGE allow it for most of their titles.